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I don't remember, but it was either Beethoven or Friends: Season 2, Volume 1 (Region 2).

Very interesting thread.

In the year 2001, my first DVD I bought was "The Simpsons: Season One" and my first Disney DVD is "Dumbo". In that time, I discovered that my old computer (which it was burned out during Hurricane Frances in Labor Day 2004) has DVD compatable. So, I started to buy/rent DVDs.

My first DVD that I purchased was Rear Window- the BEST Alfred Hitchcock movie!

My first Disney DVD was- Blackbeard's Ghost

Godzilla 2000. That was also the same time when we first got our first DVD player too. Which was exactly five years ago.

We got our first DVD player in early 2002, around March or so.
1. Guys and Dolls
2. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (The day it came out)

I don't know the order from there on.

I thought I answered this, but I can't see me on this particular thread so:

First DVD Jerry McGuire R2 (there were literally only 10 titles available in the shops at the time)

First R1 DVD Blade

My first DVD was The Beatles' Yellow Submarine, for its psichodelicy multichannel and original mono soundtracks (I had the stereo one on the open matte laserdisc)

My first Disney DVD was the Fantasia Anthology

Backstreet Boys Chapter One: The Videos. Feel free to tease me. I've heard them all by now.

- My very first dvd was Interview with the Vampire, which I bought in March 2002 at a Target.

I'll go ahead and list the next two that came after, just 'cuz.

- On October 15th of 2002, I bought Princess Mononoke and Walking with Prehistoric Beasts. Both of them from a Suncoast. Yes, what an odd combination...

I got a free DVD of A Bug's Life with my iMac back in 1999...but I think the first DVD I actually bought was Mulan, shortly thereafter.

Disney's Tarzan was my first DVD - the very 2-disc edition some of you are sad you haven't got now.

Although only a minority of my DVDs now are from Disney, DVD releases of Disney animation probably was the most important reason why I started buying DVDs.

Disney animation was also the reason why I started buying laserdiscs in 1994-95.

The very first DVD I purchased with my own money, after Christmas 2001 where I got my first DVDs as Christmas presents, was : Heathers (1989), Anchor Bay's magnificent 2001 THX release with trailer, audio commentary, 30-minute documentary, text version of the original ending... Although I would like to say they released a VHS version with 4 truly excellent TV spots that were sadly missing from the DVD re-release.

Right after I heard that we were getting a DVD player for Christmas a while ago, I bought several DVD's at once:

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Return To Never Land
Monsters, Inc.
Star Wars: Episode I- The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Episode II- The Attack of the Clones

And my mom bought us Spider-Man.

Replied twice here before, but what the heck...

First Disney DVD Purchase: Swiss Family Robinson ($19.99 at Disney Store, a month or so after it was released)

First Non-Disney DVD Purchase: The Lucy Show (PD by Madacy, 10 Episodes) and Charade (Pd by Madacy)

First Disney DVD Gift: Chronological Donald, Volume 1 (June 2003)

First Non-Disney DVD GIft: E.T. Limited Collector's Edition (Fullscreen, unfortunately, which at the time I didn't care) and My Fair Lady (original single-disc in snapper case)

First TV-On-DVD Purchase (complete season): The Golden Girls, Season One

Escapay

It was April 4th, 2000. I went out to get my first dvd player. And, of course, I had to get a movie to go along with it. It was the Director's Cut of the first Highlander movie. It was a big day for me. I know, I know. You bought a dvd player, big deal. But it was for me. After 19 years of nothing but VHS and for a couple week as a grandmother's house, BETA (Ugh), getting my first dvd and dvd player was a huge deal. I now have almost 200 dvds. That's something that I've always wondered about. In counting how many dvds you have, do you count the ones that have more than one disc in a set as one movie/dvd or do you count them separate ?

The first DVD I bought was The Wedding Planner since I love Jennifer Lopez. I can't remember my first Disney DVD though.

Spottedfeather wrote:In counting how many dvds you have, do you count the ones that have more than one disc in a set as one movie/dvd or do you count them separate ?

There's no extra count for the extras disc, if that's what you're asking about!

Spottedfeather wrote: as a grandmother's house

You were a house? Cool.

I know, I know, lame joke...

Spotted feather wrote:In counting how many dvds you have, do you count the ones that have more than one disc in a set as one movie/dvd or do you count them separate ?

Well for me it's hard to count. Any multi-disc sets for an individual movie (say, the 4-disc Gone With The Wind or the 3-disc Titanic), I count as one title. So a list would look like this:

1. Gone With The Wind: 4-Disc Collector's Editoin
2. The Wizard of Oz: 3-Disc Collector's Edition
3. Casablanca: 2-Disc Special Edition
4. Singin' in the Rain: 2-Disc Special Edition

But if it's a multi-disc set of movies in a series (4-disc X-Men collection with X-Men and X2, or 12-disc Star Trek original crew collection) or a boxset of individual titles (Garbo Signature Collection), I count it as separate titles, and note it's part of a boxset. Example:

1. X-Men 1.5 (Part of The X-Men Collection)
2. X2: X-Men United (part of The X-Men Collection)

Or, to use another example:

1. Dark Victory (part of The Bette Davis Collection)
2. The Letter (part of The Bette Davis Collection)
3. Now, Voyager (part of The Bette Davis Collection)
4. Mr. Skeffington (part of The Bette Davis Collection)
5. The Star (part of The Bette Davis Collection)

Escapay

I count individual titles in a set if the discs are also available individually. Thus, some sets are merely bundles of single-disc releases, such as Warner's "Controversial Classics".

I might not, however, for multi-movie sets where a number of titles are made into a package that "cannot be divided", such as Warner's 4-disc set of six Tarzan movies.

Lars Vermundsberget wrote:I might not, however, for multi-movie sets where a number of titles are made into a package that "cannot be divided", such as Warner's 4-disc set of six Tarzan movies.

Or like the Indiana Jones set...I mean, all I want to do is obtain one of my very favorite movies, Raiders of the Lost Ark, without having to spend money on that whiny, screechy Kate Capshaw as well...is that really too much to ask?

Heheh, sorry for the rant, there. Anyway, I'd probably count season box sets as "one" DVD per, and movie box sets by the number of movies in them. But even if I counted every individual disc in my collection, I'd still probably have fewer than anyone else here, so I won't exactly be entering any "World's Biggest DVD Collection" contests any time soon. Wow. It seems like, to some people, DVDs are the new Beanie Babies or Star Wars action figures...they just amass them, but not necessarily out of some deep sense of connection to any one of them. It's sort of like the Borg.